The Creation by James Weldon Johnson - Poems - Academy of …
James Weldon Johnson, born in Florida in 1871, was a national organizer for the NAACP and an author of poetry and nonfiction. Perhaps best known for the song "Lift Every Voice and SIng," he also wrote several poetry collections and novels, often exploring racial identity and the African American folk tradition.
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The Best Poem Of James Weldon Johnson. The Creation. And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely--. I'll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see. Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights.
Lift Every Voice and Sing | The Poetry Foundation
Lift Every Voice and Sing. By James Weldon Johnson. A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the words and he wrote the music.
Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson - Poems
1938. Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise. High as the list’ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of …
The Gift to Sing by James Weldon Johnson - Poems | Academy …
The Gift to Sing. James Weldon Johnson. 1871 –. 1938. Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, And blackening clouds about me cling; But, oh, I have a magic way. To turn the gloom to cheerful day—.
James Weldon Johnson | The Poetry Foundation
Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1930), God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), and Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), among others. He published several books of …
James Weldon Johnson: poems, essays, and short stories
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871– June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
Sence You Went Away | The Poetry Foundation
Sence You Went Away. By James Weldon Johnson. Seems lak to me de stars don't shine so bright, Seems lak to me de sun done loss his light, Seems lak to me der's nothin' goin' right, Sence you went away. Seems lak to me de sky ain't half so blue, Seems lak to me dat eve'ything wants you, Seems lak to me I don't know what to do,
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Fifty Years & Other Poems, by James …
Mar 1, 2006 · In the following pages Mr. James Weldon Johnson conforms to both of these traditions. He gathers together a group of lyrics, delicate in workmanship, fragrant with sentiment, and phrased in pure and unexceptionable English. Then he has another group of dialect verses, racy of the soil, pungent in flavor, swinging in rhythm and adroit in rhyme.
The Prodigal Son, by James Weldon Johnson | poems, essays, and short …
The Prodigal Son. Young man— Your arm’s too short to box with God. But Jesus spake in a parable, and he said: A certain man had two sons. Jesus didn’t give this man a name, But his name is God Almighty. And Jesus didn’t call these sons by name, But ev’ry young man, Ev’rywhere, Is one of these two sons. And the younger son said to his father,